'Loved' in the Bible

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus' chest and asked him, "Lord, who is it?"

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

You heard me say to you, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them."

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, here is your son!"

So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.

Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. (This was the disciple who had leaned back against Jesus' chest at the meal and asked, "Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?")